Chapter 142 Buying a Ship from the Wen Family
Chapter 142 Buying a Ship from the Wen Family
Zhao Jinge got up late the next day.
When he woke up, Jiang Zhen had gone out, and Zhao Mingzhu was not there.
Although he knew that it was Jiang Zhen who wanted him to sleep longer, Brother Zhao Jing was still inexplicably disappointed.
However, his disappointment disappeared soon after seeing the note on the bedside.
The note was written by Jiang Zhen. Jiang Zhen's handwriting was not good, but the strokes were very clear: "Brother Jin, I'll go to Qingfeng Tower to have a look. You wait at home for me to come back."
The Qingfeng Building is about to be completed, so I really want to go and have a look... Brother Zhao Jin put away the note, and immediately regained his energy, and then his stomach growled.
He was too late to toss with Jiang Zhen last night, he was hungry when he was sleeping, and now he is even more hungry.
"You child, why are you still sleeping late at such an age? Even Mingzhu wakes up earlier than you." Zhao Liushi said while bringing Zhao Jinge something to eat.
Brother Zhao Jin was a little embarrassed, at this moment, Zhao Fugui suddenly said: "Don't talk about him, I'm a young couple, there are many things to do at night."
Sure enough, Zhao Liushi didn't say anything, and looked at Zhao Jinge's belly expectantly.
Brother Zhao Jin: "..." He was even more embarrassed.
Brother Zhao Jin ate some hastily, and carried Zhao Mingzhu to the outer courtyard.
When Jiang Zhen came back, he was much more relaxed, so he might as well teach his daughter how to walk more.
Zhao Mingzhu was placed on the road paved with stone slabs, this time it was replaced by Zhao Jinge standing not far in front of her: "Come on, Mingzhu, come here..."
Zhao Mingzhu got down quickly and crawled towards Brother Zhao Jin.
Brother Zhao Jing: "..."
Finally, Brother Zhao Jin moved several long benches and put them together, and asked Zhao Mingzhu to walk slowly along the benches.
With something to hold on to, Zhao Mingzhu would rather walk on two legs instead of four.
On the other side, Wen Yingniang also went to bed late.
She slept until dawn before waking up. After waking up, she looked at the top of the bed curtain in a daze.
How did her bed change?Also, why did no one call her at dawn today?
She was at a loss for a while, and then suddenly remembered that she had left the Liao's house.
After calling for someone to wash herself, Wen Yingniang felt refreshed after washing her face.
"Miss Wen, what do you want to eat in the morning?" After Wen Yingniang got up, a delicate maid of seventeen or eighteen years old came to ask.
Wen Yingniang originally wanted to talk about her favorite food, but suddenly realized that this is not her home, and judging from the Zhao family's meal last night, it is very likely that Zhao's family does not have the delicate things she wants to eat .
"What's in the kitchen, just bring me some." Wen Yingniang finally said.
Not long after, seven or eight little maids came to Wen Yingniang with a lot of food. They put some home-cooked dishes and porridge, steamed buns and fried dough sticks in front of Wen Yingniang. The servants brought food.
A bucket of porridge, dozens of steamed buns, and two pots of vegetables, one meat and one vegetable, are quite ordinary, but they are definitely enough to fill you up.
However, for the people around Wen Yingniang, the food was really average.
In the past at the Liao's house, they had several choices of food for these shameless maids, and they were all exquisite.
As for Wen Yingniang... When she got married, she even brought a cook from the southern Fujian province, so what day didn't she have seven or eight kinds of snacks to eat in the morning?
"Miss, I will have our house cleaned up later, and I will not let you be wronged in the future." A woman in her 30s next to Wen Yingniang saw the ordinary food in front of Wen Yingniang, and felt sorry for her lady. .
She is Wen Yingniang's dowry maid. She married Wen Yingniang's steward seven or eight years ago, and became the steward's lady. She usually doesn't come to Wen Yingniang's side to serve her very much, but now that something happened to Wen Yingniang, she has been accompany.
"There's nothing wrong with it. They eat the same thing." Wen Yingniang said, the food the Zhao family ate was very ordinary yesterday. In the end, after everyone had almost eaten, Jiang Zhen and Brother Zhao Jin ate the leftovers. It's all gone, nothing is wasted.
"That's true... The Zhao family used to farm in the countryside, so they really don't pay much attention to it." The servant nodded.
"A farmer? How do you say that?" Wen Yingniang was a little curious. Before that, she only knew that the head of the Jinzhen Escort Bureau was a Shuang'er who dug out her own pregnancy mole, but she didn't know much about the rest.
"It's like this..." The people around Wen Yingniang had already inquired about the Zhao family's affairs with the servants of the Zhao family after she moved into the Zhao family, and at this time they told Wen Yingniang in detail.
At first I heard that the Zhao family used to be farmers, and Wen Yingniang thought they were landlords, but I didn't expect that they really wanted to farm before...
It is not easy for ordinary people to fight for such a family business, so Zhao Jinge and Jiang Zhen really have some skills.
Just as Wen Yingniang was thinking about this, she saw a few handsome servant girls coming to her place to clean up the dishes, and said: "If Miss Wen has something to do, just tell us."
There are still many people serving Wen Yingniang, but there is no need to ask them to help with the work, so she directly refused, and then led the people out.
Except for her own, she had to sort out and sell the things she brought from Liao's house yesterday, otherwise it would be too eyesore.
As soon as Wen Yingniang left her yard, she saw Zhao Jinge playing in the yard with her children, accompanied by two young Shuang'er.
"Good morning, Miss Wen!" Seeing Wen Yingniang, Brother Zhao Jin immediately greeted her.
"It's getting late now." Wen Yingniang said.
That's true, it's daylight now... Brother Zhao Jin didn't know how to answer the conversation.
"Your Jin Zhen Escort Bureau, will you accept the business to Minnan Prefecture?" Wen Yingniang suddenly asked again: "I have some things to send back to my mother's house." Clear, give parents some gifts.
"I didn't accept it before, but if it's your business, I will." Zhao Jinge said.
"Why?" Wen Yingniang frowned, she couldn't help but think a little bit more, could it be that Jiang Zhen and Brother Zhao Jin came out to rescue her yesterday, and there is something else hidden?
"Yesterday, Shao Zheng told us that your natal family can make boats, and we want to buy some big boats!" Zhao Jinge said directly.
Wen Yingniang was still thinking about what Zhao Jinge wanted to do, and she finally understood after hearing this.
There are many craftsmen in their Wen family, and they made the boats for sale. It would be no problem to sell them to the Jin Zhen Escort Bureau. Wen Yingniang agreed without thinking about it: "No problem, I will write you a letter when the time comes." Second brother, he will definitely sell the boat to you."
"Thank you." Zhao Jinge thanked.
"No need." Wen Yingniang waved her hand and went out.
After Zhao Jinge watched Wen Yingniang leave, he played with Zhao Mingzhu again, and dealt with some affairs of the Jinzhen Escort that He Chunsheng had sent over, and also read the account book sent by the brick kiln at Hexing Mansion.
The brick kiln on the side of Hexing Mansion is now managed by Jiang Xiaomei and her husband Zhang Bai.
Not long after the Jiang family sued Jiang Zhen, Jiang Xiaomei married Zhang Bai, and then followed Zhao Jinge to Fucheng to burn bricks in Fucheng.
Zhang Bai didn't even have a free life before, but now Jiang Zhen let him redeem his contract of prostitution and married a wife. He was very grateful and worked very hard. Not only did he work hard to burn bricks, but he also brought out many apprentices. So much so that Zhao Jinge's brick kiln has not been opened for a long time, and the output has exceeded that of some brick kilns in Fucheng that have been in operation for decades, which has made Zhao Jinge a lot of money.
The ledger of the brick kiln is very simple, and Zhao Jinge read it quickly, and then asked some questions to the person who came to report.
Knowing that the seaside people brought back by him and Jiang Zhen lived well in the brick kiln, Brother Zhao Jing was relieved, and specially ordered to feed those people some meat every day so that they could maintain their health.
Those who came to report should respond one by one.
After finishing these things, it was already afternoon, and Jiang Zhen hadn't come back yet... Zhao Jinge carried Zhao Mingzhu to the gate, and was about to find someone to go to the Qingfeng Tower to ask, when he saw the corner door was opened.
Jiang Zhen is back?Brother Zhao Jin was overjoyed, and was about to go up to meet him, but found that it was Wen Yingniang who came back. Not only that, Wen Yingniang's face was also very ugly.
"Miss Wen, what's the matter?" Zhao Jinge asked worriedly, Wen Yingniang just had an ugly face, and the people around Wen Yingniang... He smelled the smell of rotten eggs from the maidservants. egg?
"I met a group of lunatics." Wen Yingniang said coldly.
After she went out, she went to the house she bought in Hexing Mansion. She didn't encounter anything at first, but in the afternoon, a group of scholars suddenly came.
Those people were both "Hedong Lions" and "Poisonous Women". They scolded her severely, and even encouraged some people to throw rotten eggs at her.
If it weren't for the protection of the people around her, she might also be smelly now.
As long as Wen Yingniang thought of the scene at that time, she was trembling with anger.
Why are there so many meddling people in this world?
Those smelly men, do they live on women like Liao Qinghe?Now that he is afraid that the woman in the family will make trouble, he wants to suppress her first?
If not, why would they be so angry and complain about Liao Qinghe?
A group of lunatics with brain problems, why don't they die?
Wen Yingniang scolded those people countless times in her heart, but even so, she still suffered a disadvantage.
"Brother Zhao Jin, can you help me find some people who collect money to do things? I can help." Wen Yingniang sent her men to wash up, and then looked at Brother Zhao Jin.
When she left from Liao's house, although she took a lot of things with her, she still thought about getting together and going away.
Therefore, she did not let them take out the calligraphy and paintings collected by the Liao family for generations to pay off the debt. When she married into the Liao family, she did not move the [-] acres of land outside the capital that the Liao family owned.
In the end, Liao Qinghe actually incited a group of people to scold her!
Wen Yingniang had already sent someone to inquire about it, and she was very clear about the ins and outs of the matter.
It turned out that because of Wen Yingniang's disturbance yesterday, the Liao family didn't sleep all night last night. After waking up this morning, they found that...they didn't even have breakfast!
Wen Yingniang took the cook away!
The Liao family took some effort and found servants who are good at cooking to cook the meals, but because the ingredients were not enough and the craftsmanship was average, they were very dissatisfied with the food.
Then, they realized...they really didn't have any money on them. After one meal, they didn't know what to do next.
This was the first time for Liao Qinghe to encounter this situation, and he couldn't help feeling overwhelmed. Later, when some of his friends came to visit him, he complained.
Liao Qinghe is one of the four sons of Jiangnan. Although he is not yet in high school, his poems are very popular in Jiangnan. Many young students admire him very much and have always sympathized with him. The Hedong lion born by a merchant is still an infertility.
Liao Qinghe had already shown a lot of tolerance towards this woman, but this woman was so ungrateful that she evacuated the Liao family when Liao Qinghe felt very guilty towards her...
Young students are always the best to incite, no, they got angry and found some people to teach Wen Yingniang a lesson.
However, Wen Yingniang didn't intend to hold back... If you can teach me a lesson, I can naturally teach you a lesson too!
The Jin Zhen Escort Bureau wanted to go to the Escort Bureau, so people from all walks of life naturally knew some people. Brother Zhao Jin quickly found some people for Wen Yingniang.
Wen Yingniang gave each of those people two taels of silver, explained some things, and named them before letting them go, and then said to Zhao Jinge: "I will still live in the Zhao family for the rest of my life. I’m going to trouble you to take care of it, don’t worry, I’ll give you money.” When she got married, she had 20 taels of silver at the bottom of the box, but in addition to that, there was Zhuangzi’s shop and so on. Over the years, the family even subsidized her from time to time ... Now what she lacks the most is money.
Brother Zhao Jin agreed, and Jiang Zhen asked him to befriend Wen Yingniang. In this case, he would naturally agree to Wen Yingniang's request.
However, he was always a little puzzled... Why did Wen Yingniang explain things like this?
Brother Zhao Jing was a little confused at first, but the next day, he understood the reason—the Liao family and several other scholars had been splashed with feces at the door of the house, and the stench was suffocating.
Wen Yingniang is planning to confront those people!
After all, she is a woman, and she is worried about hiring strangers to protect her. The shopkeepers under her have work to do, so she plans to follow Brother Zhao Jin.
Wen Yingniang's actions can be regarded as offending many scholars in Hexing Mansion, but those scholars have no way to deal with her.
The rich families in Hexing Mansion would not rashly offend Wen Yingniang, and they all looked down on the Liao family, so those who threw rotten eggs at Wen Yingniang before were basically scholars from Hexing Mansion's average family background .
These scholars, although they want to take revenge, they really can't make a big deal out of it. Jiang Zhen found some people to patrol the door of his house, and no one dared to come over.
However, if Wen Yingniang was left alone, she would probably be in trouble immediately.
Because of this, when the Zhao family was going back to Hexi Village a few days later, they could only bring Wen Yingniang with them.
This time they went back to Hexi Village for two reasons. One was to bring some of the people back from the beach, and the other was to celebrate Zhao Mingzhu's first birthday.
Unknowingly, it has been a year since Zhao Mingzhu was born, and now that the Zhao family is not short of money, they naturally want to hold a birthday party for her.
Wen Yingniang followed Jiang Zhen and Brother Jin Zhao, sitting on the best boat of the Jinzhen Escort, looked around, and then said: "This boat is not as good as my family's, no wonder you want to buy a boat from my family."
"Yeah." Brother Zhao Jin nodded.
Jiang Zhen has always tried his best to avoid getting along with Wen Yingniang, so the person who came into contact with Wen Yingniang became him.He is not very good at talking, so he just keeps telling the truth.
"By the way, don't you have many good-looking maids in your family? Why didn't you bring any of them out this time?" Wen Yingniang asked again. When she lived in the Zhao family, all the maids the Zhao family sent to serve her were good-looking. , but now I don't even see a single one.
"They all work in the kitchen," Zhao Jinge said.Those maids are usually responsible for working in the kitchen and cleaning the empty courtyard. By the way, they are also responsible for guests.
Wen Yingniang glanced at the two dark and thin girls beside Zhao Jinge, and then at the two wrinkled maids beside Zhao Liushi, she was a little speechless: "You let those maids work in the kitchen? Jiang Zhen didn't say anything. What?" The jealousy was too obvious!
"He said he didn't like having a group of maids hanging around." Brother Zhao Jin was a little proud, Jiang Zhen was not someone who would be fooled by beauty!
Wen Yingniang gave Zhao Jinge a complicated look, a little envious.
Liao Qinghe has always been flirtatious, and the maids around her are not only beautiful, but they are also clingy to him, even the people who serve her, many of them also fell in love with Liao Qinghe.
It was hard for her at first, but she got used to it later.
She thought that all women's twins had to live like this, but Brother Zhao Jin didn't.
Maybe, she can also recruit a man back?
She is old and divorced, so it is almost impossible for her to marry a man who is better than Liao Qinghe, but it is no problem to find a man who is good-looking but has no money at home to serve her.
By the way, it's better that the man is incompetent. If she looks at her better, she won't have to worry about him turning out her palm, and he will definitely be obedient to her.
Wen Yingniang thought a lot in an instant, but it was just thinking, she didn't want to find another man for the time being.
With this skill, she might as well think about how to deal with her parents...
She said she was going to send people to Fujian, but until now, she hadn't really sent people there.
Wen Yingniang sighed, but she didn't know that at this moment, a large boat stopped at Hexing Mansion, and the people who got off the boat were still members of the Wen family.
Wen's father and mother really loved Wen Yingniang, so they kept looking for someone to watch her at Hexing Mansion.
They knew about her situation at the first time, and after they knew about it, they sent someone to pick her up at the first time.
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